Authorities arrested several hundred Iranian women and issued a warning to thousands of other over their poor Islamic dress this week in the most harsh crackdown on what’s known as “bad hijab” for more than a decade. Police cars are… Read moreIran: hundreds of women arrested in “bad hijab” crackdown
About 100 Iranians protested in Tehran April 21 against a new Sivand dam, charging it threatens archaeological sites dating to the first Persian empire of 2,600 years ago. Protesters carried banners with Zoroastrian symbols and demanded the resignation of Esfandiar… Read moreIranians protest Sivand dam project
Iran’s Fars News Agency reported April 10 that the US nuclear submarine Newport News polluted the Persian Gulf waters with radioactive and chemical materials after it collided with a Japanese super-tanker, and was forced to leave the Gulf following strong… Read morePersian Gulf nuclear sub accident: US denies it
The New York Times reports April 5 that US officials are reviewing an informal request from Tehran for an envoy to visit five Iranians who were imprisoned after a US raid in northern Iraq in January. Maj. Gen. William B…. Read moreIran wants access to nationals seized by US in Iraqi Kurdistan
As the US carries out massive military exercise in the Persian Gulf, the United Arab Emirates became the second Gulf state to declare it would not take part in any attack on Iran. Qatar—home to 6,500 US troops and the… Read moreGulf states break ranks with Bush on Iran attack
The Pentagon conducted a test March 28 of a new ultra-powerful 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The MOP, carrying more than 5,300 pounds of explosives, delivers more than 10 times the explosive… Read morePentagon tests new bunker-buster —for Iran?
Yemeni forces shot down a foreign drone flying over the south of the Arab country, government officials said March 28, and local media reported that the aircraft was Iranian. “Yes, a drone was brought down,” a government official told Reuters…. Read moreIranian drone shot down in Yemen?
Terrifying reports are mounting of imminent US aggression against Iran, and we have been hearing for months ominous rumblings that Israel will actually strike first. Our March issue featured an interview with Bina Darabzand, a leader of Iran’s embattled left… Read moreUS aggression against Iran: one reader writes
The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis entered the Persian Gulf March 27, where it will conduct a joint exercise with the Dwight D. Eisenhower, which has been in the Gulf since October. The air wings of the two carrier… Read moreIran attack set for next week?
Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said March 26 that India intends to go ahead with a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline from Iran via Pakistan despite objections from the US. “Talks on this pipeline are going on,” Mukherjee said in an interview with… Read moreIndia bucks US pressure on Iran pipeline deal
From the UK Press Association, March 23: Fifteen Royal Navy sailors have been seized by Iranian warships in Iraqi territorial waters, the Ministry of Defence said. Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has summoned the Iranian ambassador in London to demand their… Read moreIran seizes 15 British sailors
A petition from the Organization of Women’s Liberation in Iran (OWLI): To: all progressive organizations and all freedom-loving people Your help is urgently needed to release 36 women activists in Tehran! 4th March 2007, a gathering of women activists in… Read moreIran: women activists attacked
